UNCASVILLE — There was a time this winter, when she was playing in Turkey, that Connecticut's Kelsey Bone felt as though she was losing some of her love for basketball. In fact, it almost got to the point where she began to question her willingness to put...

UNCASVILLE — Poised to become one of the WNBA's breakout players, Bria Hartley instead begins the new season balancing on crutches. This is what can happen; the stress of an unrelenting playing schedule sometimes results in a stress reaction to the...

UNCASVILLE – After the regular-season finale on Sept. 13, there will be no debate about how these early-season injuries impacted the Connecticut Sun. Everyone will know; either the Sun will head to the Eastern Conference semifinals or home to face another...

Game 1 of the NBA Finals is history. So the slate is clear for the 2015 WNBA season to begin Friday. The Connecticut Sun, already pounded by injuries, will be at Mohegan Sun Arena to play Washington. UConn fans will make sure to say hello to the...

The WNBA's normal offseason passes quietly and without incident, much like its regular season, which struggles to draw attention from those without direct involvement or interest. But not this time around.The league has been thrust in the eye of the...

The greatest player in women's college basketball is enjoying what amounts to a five-day hiatus from the various responsibilities that come with that title. "What would I like to do? Probably nothing," Breanna Stewart said Monday. "I'd like...

When Geno Auriemma was asked about the perception Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis would have difficulty guarding players like Diana Taurasi in the WNBA, the UConn coach offered a cryptic response.
"Tell me who can guard [Taurasi]?" Auriemma said.
Point...

The journey began when they gathered as collection of players in search of an identity and it culminated when a team made history on a Tuesday night in Tampa, Fla.
In between, the UConn women’s basketball team had so many traits of so many teams...

TAMPA, Fla. — UConn coach Geno Auriemma loved his national championship team last season from Day 1. This season, not so much."Last year's team, we started off Oct. 15 loving each other and it just got better and better," he said. "It was...

TAMPA, Fla. — This dominant UConn team may not even be one of the three best in program history … If John Calapari wants to talk team, team, team, he ought to have his players stay for four years and maybe he'll reach Geno Auriemma's level …
Breanna...

TAMPA — They have the Wade Trophy winner in Breanna Stewart. They have the NCAA's top three-point shooter in Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis. They have three WBCA All-Americans (Stewart, Mosqueda-Lewis and Moriah Jefferson) and WBCA high school player of the...

STORRS — If there is a recipe for success against the best women's college basketball team in the country, this wasn't a bad first ingredient.Rutgers, unafraid at Gampel Pavilion, was physical and aggressive in its NCAA Tournament game against UConn...

NEW ORLEANS — It's not unusual to hear professional athletes admit how compelled they are to perform because there might be someone in the stands who has come just to see them and might never have the chance again. Joe DiMaggio said it, Derek Jeter,...